P-I archives: More Denny Regrade area pics

The Denny Regrade area in APril 1928 and September 1931. To see larger copies of the photos, click here. (Seattlepi.com file)

Today from the seattlepi.com archive we have more photos of the Denny Regrade area.

The top picture was taken in April 1928. The bottom picture was taken in September 1931. To see larger copies of the photos, click here.

The photos ran in the P-I in 1960 – two years before the Space Needle was completed. The caption read:

These remarkable “before and after” pictures show the second Denny regrade. The big job began September 14, 1928 and was completed August 9, 1931. The area covered was 92 acres or 38 city blocks. The maximum cut was 89 feet, and 4,216,158 cubic yards of earth moved by belt conveyer to Elliott Bay.

The cost in terms of today’s currency was amazingly: $1,885,240 – and this included earth removal, sewers and water mains, sidewalks and property settlements.

In the top picture the old footpath up to the Denny School is clearly visible. The right arrow in the bottom picture indicates the school’s cupola, which graduates hoped to preserve in Denny Park. The arrow at left indicates the approximate sides of The Grosvenor House and the Post-Intelligencer.

These photos are also part of the Seattle Municipal Archives and in 2007 were included in a post from VintageSeattle.org – an excellent site for old photographs. That post also included a photograph from the same perspective in 1964. See that post here.